FEVERISH ENERGY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 17, 5 January 1921, Page 5

FEVERISH ENERGY.

GERMAN INDUSTRIES REVIVING

GLASS MANUFACTURE.

(Received 5, 8.55 a.m.) London, Jan. 4. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Berlin correspondent states that the reorganisation of Germany’s industries are proceeding with feverish energy, notably in the case of glass manufacture. This industry made great progress in England during the war, but languished since the armistice.

One of the most important incidents is the unification of the electric light bulb industry, whereby the Osram Company secures the virtual monopoly of the manufacture of bulbs in Germany, its capital being raised to 250 million marks. —(A- and N.Z.)

ANILINE DYES. THE GERMAN MONOPOLY. WHAT ENGLAND MISSED. London, Dec. 7. In moving the second reading of the Dye Stuffs Bill in the House of Commons, Sir Robert Horne, President of the Board of Trade, said that it prohibited import except by license of synthetic or organic dyes, colors, and coloring matter, and intermediate organic dyes. He urged that a Licensing Committee be established, consisting of five representatives 01 tho dye consumers, three representatives of the dye producers, and five neutrals, and said that there would be no delay and no difficulty in granting licenses PLEDGED TO PROTECT. He emphasised that the Government pledged itself to protect the dye industry against German competition. The bill was necessary to prevent the British dye industry from being killed and making us again dependent on outside supplies for vital industries, and imperilling our very existence in wartime. (Cheers.) He announced that the Government intended to make a bill dealing with the other key to industries the first bill of next session. HUMILIATING CHAPTER.

Mr. Asquith supported the bill, and declared that the question of free trade and protection did not arise. He declared that his Government was right in granting a subsidy, but as it was necessary consequently now to ensure that there would not be unlimited private profit, certain surpluses should be devoted to research.

The history of the British dye industry was a humiliating chapter, and he emphasised the necessity to have textile industries of superior quality dyes. “The Germans should not continue to have the monopoly,” he said, “but as long as we cannot produce the quality manufacturers ought to have free access to German dyes.”